A well known antique to the present taste!! [graphic]

Depiction of a statue of three men grappling with a snake, the arm of the central figure inscribed "Bloody Brutal" and the pedestal inscribed "LAOCOON." The snake's body extends off the pedestal to the left, with the front of it forming a male human figure wearing a coat and a hat and having a medal around his neck. This figure holds a bucket labeled "ALBA" in his right hand and a dripping paint brush in his left; above him hangs a sign inscribed "How white now it would appear if I have not bitten it so black." On the side of the lower base of the statue is a scene with donkeys bowing down to a winged snake figure poised in front of an offering bowl